Chess Quotes
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” “It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.” “All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.” “In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.” “When you see a good move, look for a better one” “A king may be the most important piece on the chessboard, however, the queen is the most powerful.” “Strategy requires thought tactics require observation.” “You yourself must learn to master your emotions, and never be influenced by anger.” “Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.”1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Marcel Duchamp
4. Stefan Zweig
5. Emanuel Lasker
6. Karim R. Ellis
7. Max Euwe
9. Robert Green
10. Anatoly Karpov